1 Maccabees 6:3-5

Common English Bible

³ So he went and tried to take the city by force and plunder it. But he was unsuccessful because the city’s inhabitants knew about his plan. ⁴ They resisted him in battle, and he fled. With great disappointment, he planned to return to Babylon.

⁵ While King Antiochus was in Persia, someone came to him and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been thoroughly defeated.